Runners rally resolve

Vella: 'I'm a go-to person not a run-from person'

10:39 AM,
Apr. 17, 2013

From left, Gail Vella with her dog, Miley; Lisa Tinsley; and Courtney Pragel run with a group of men and women along the Gateway Trail in Murfreesboro Tuesday, as the group trains for an upcoming marathon.

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Murfreesboro resident Gail Vella has run the Boston Marathon twice, and her friends saw the carnage of Monday's bombing firsthand.

"They said the bombs were like cannons exploding," Vella said.

So in the aftermath of the Boston bombing - which killed three and injured more than 180 others Monday - how will Vella handle running in next week's St. Jude Country Music Marathon & Half Marathon through downtown Nashville? ...